Enums, Intellisense, and switchs…
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What is the format needed for Intellisense to pick up on my comments for my enums? So when I type “MyEnum.ItemOne” the intellisense will display the documentation I’ve written for “ItemOne”? Also, is there some sort of command I can use in Visual Studio that will generate a compile error if I don’t use all possible Enum values in a switch statement? I’m looking for a compile-time dummy catch incase I add an extra Enum value later but might miss a statement that should switch on all possible values of the Enum. Thanks!
/// <summary> /// Absolutely /// </summary> public enum Blah { /// <summary> /// The Absolete System.Terror /// </summary> Terror, /// <summary> /// Liquid.Nitrogen /// </summary> Nitro }[Edit]Fixed "<" signs For Point 2: Not that I know of. But It shouldn't be too hard to create a method that checks each enumeration used. [/Edit]
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What is the format needed for Intellisense to pick up on my comments for my enums? So when I type “MyEnum.ItemOne” the intellisense will display the documentation I’ve written for “ItemOne”? Also, is there some sort of command I can use in Visual Studio that will generate a compile error if I don’t use all possible Enum values in a switch statement? I’m looking for a compile-time dummy catch incase I add an extra Enum value later but might miss a statement that should switch on all possible values of the Enum. Thanks!
Anticast wrote:
a compile error if I don’t use all possible Enum values
nope. you could come up with extra code that performs some checks, but it isn't straightforward. :)
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What is the format needed for Intellisense to pick up on my comments for my enums? So when I type “MyEnum.ItemOne” the intellisense will display the documentation I’ve written for “ItemOne”? Also, is there some sort of command I can use in Visual Studio that will generate a compile error if I don’t use all possible Enum values in a switch statement? I’m looking for a compile-time dummy catch incase I add an extra Enum value later but might miss a statement that should switch on all possible values of the Enum. Thanks!
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/// <summary> /// Absolutely /// </summary> public enum Blah { /// <summary> /// The Absolete System.Terror /// </summary> Terror, /// <summary> /// Liquid.Nitrogen /// </summary> Nitro }[Edit]Fixed "<" signs For Point 2: Not that I know of. But It shouldn't be too hard to create a method that checks each enumeration used. [/Edit]
Thanks, works perfectly! I was trying variations on
public enum MyEnum
{
ItemOne //My notes
}with no success =/
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I didn't know this until recently, when I did it by accident - imagine the chances of that happening ! :)
I agree, thanks for the tip!
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I didn't know this until recently, when I did it by accident - imagine the chances of that happening ! :)
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Thanks, works perfectly! I was trying variations on
public enum MyEnum
{
ItemOne //My notes
}with no success =/
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I had no idea! Real cool! :thumbsup:
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What is the format needed for Intellisense to pick up on my comments for my enums? So when I type “MyEnum.ItemOne” the intellisense will display the documentation I’ve written for “ItemOne”? Also, is there some sort of command I can use in Visual Studio that will generate a compile error if I don’t use all possible Enum values in a switch statement? I’m looking for a compile-time dummy catch incase I add an extra Enum value later but might miss a statement that should switch on all possible values of the Enum. Thanks!
You may want to check out GhostDoc[^] It is a free add on for Visual Studio that makes documenting stuff (for Intellisense or not) realy easy. Ctl+Shift+d while the insertion point is in your enum and all of the
///<summary></summary>tags for each option are inserted (and the stuff at the top). I am a bit of a fan since I found it. -
What is the format needed for Intellisense to pick up on my comments for my enums? So when I type “MyEnum.ItemOne” the intellisense will display the documentation I’ve written for “ItemOne”? Also, is there some sort of command I can use in Visual Studio that will generate a compile error if I don’t use all possible Enum values in a switch statement? I’m looking for a compile-time dummy catch incase I add an extra Enum value later but might miss a statement that should switch on all possible values of the Enum. Thanks!
Putting all enums in a switch statement simply because they exist is pointless. There are MANY times when you simply don't care about 1 or more of the ordinals (lumping their handling into the
default:clause)..45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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